Emerging-market Web users were more than two and one-halftimes as likely to buy a smartphone during the next year (52%) comparedwith mature-market respondents (20%), and were also more likely to havebought a smartphone in the past year (67% versus 32%).

Internet users in emerging markets were twice as likely to have bought a computer in the past year (40% versus 20%).

Emerging-market respondents tended to spend more money on consumer electronics in 2009 than their mature-market counterparts.